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Major Chinese social media platforms, including Tencent Holdings’ WeChat and ByteDance-owned Douyin, have launched new features to abide by Monday’s roll-out of a new law that mandates labelling of all artificial intelligence-generated content online. The law, which was issued in March, requires explicit and implicit labels for AI-generated text, images, audio, video and other virtual content. Explicit markings must be clearly visible to users, while implicit identifiers – such as digital...

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Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission. A UK...

After a bombshell report on Meta allowing its AI chatbots to have sensual chats with minors, the company is updating its policies.

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Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said he was launching an investigation into Meta following a damning Reuters report about the company's AI policies.

After a massive hiring spree at Meta Superintelligence Labs, the question is whether Zuckerberg will be able to keep the new staffers from...

Indonesia has summoned representatives of Meta Platforms Inc , ByteDance's TikTok and other social media platforms, ordering them to boost content...

Lawyers for Elon Musk have asked a U.S. judge to block ChatGPT-owner OpenAI from obtaining documents from Meta Platforms related to a previous...

Abraham Shafi, the founder and CEO of Get Together, parent company of the social media app IRL, faces charges of wire fraud, securities fraud and obstruction.

The report claims that Meta's tactics are used to counter concerns that services like Instagram can be harmful to teens in an attempt to shape the...

Will Smith is facing backlash after fans accused him of using AI to generate fake crowds in a promotional concert video, with distorted faces...

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Meta plans to launch a super PAC to support California candidates favoring a light-touch approach to AI regulation, Politico reports. The news...

Elon Musk's X, formerly known as Twitter, and his AI startup xAI, have sued Apple and OpenAI, accusing the pair of having "locked up markets to...

Read more CNBC tech news ... Musk earlier this month threatened to sue Apple for "an unequivocal antitrust violation," saying in a post on X that the...

Meta reportedly plans to introduce its new smart glasses with a consumer-ready display at next month's “Connect” conference.

Meta's former policy chief Nick Clegg seems to be walking a tightrope as he promotes his upcoming book, “How to Save the Internet.”

US tech billionaire Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence start-up xAI has open-sourced Grok 2.5, an earlier version of its model series, intensifying the global race to challenge China’s lead in making AI products freely available for anyone to use, modify and share. Musk said on social media platform X.com over the weekend that Grok 2.5, touted as the company’s “best model last year”, was uploaded to Hugging Face, the world’s largest open-source AI platform. He added that Grok 3 would become...

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Apparently, the leaders of Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta feel similarly. Today, Alexandr Wang, the former Scale AI founder and CEO who...

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Meta's glasses are codenamed Hypernova and will include a small display in the right lens of the device, people familiar with the matter told...

Meta is partnering with Midjourney and will license its “aesthetic” technology for future models and products, according to Alexandr Wang.

Meta's chief AI officer said that the company is partnering with Midjourney to license its AI image and video model technology.

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